How To Play Oculus Games With Your HTC Vive

Credit: Nicole Gray

Purchasing either of the two most popular virtual reality headsets — HTC Vive and Oculus Rift — is an exercise in making concessions. Vive has superior visuals and better controllers, but Rift is more intuitive and portable. And Rift has some excellent exclusive titles.

We can’t help you make your Vive any more portable or easy to use, but we can help you play Oculus exclusive titles – or almost anything you’ve purchased in the Oculus Store – on your HTC HMD.

First things first, you don’t need a work-around for most games. If you own a Vive headset you should, most often, purchase titles through the Viveport jump off or Valve’s Steam store. Compatible titles will work with both Vive and Rift if you launch them through either service.

But if you want to play a game that’s only available through the Oculus Rift store, such as Lone Echo or even the free Bulletstorm experience, you’re going to need some help. The Oculus software doesn’t have native support for Vive, so you’ll need a wonderful little program called Revive.

Revive is a program that works seamlessly within your Vive experience to let you access games from your Oculus Store Home in virtual reality.

It works like this:

Install the Oculus Rift software (skip the steps to configure the headset)